Quote Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra View Post
I won't dispute your experience and yes I do not live in New Zealand or Australia but I play on Sophia and my game play seems fine and the distance for me at least from the East Coast is 14,049 km Distance from Washington DC to New Zealand. Japan is considerably closer at 10,894 km Distance from Washington to Tokyo and the game has always played fine for me there as well.
Okay? The point is that NA would make more sense from a ping perspective for us (Aussies/Kiwis) than EU. You also need to know that the Internet in Australia is actually pretty terrible (and it still makes me so angry. It could have been so much better and future-proofed, but... that's a political can of worms completely off-topic to this site).